Vardinio'sCat

What's his name?

I swear him and Gags have grown an inch in the last 2 weeks. Cags has been a nightmare to play with for most of this season, but seems to have finally found form. By way of a contrast, I suspect Dan has had this kind of form in him for a while, he is a good CB at this level when he is confident. Getting a decent run of games this season has raised his stock.

Sweet performance from Albrighton, you rarely see 32-year olds running that hard. He is a superb team player.

Filbert stinks, let's face it.

Rennes are good for the squits, that's all I know about them.

You can't knock this mans professionalism, and his ability to keep things ticking over reliably in midfield. Some sides really need a link man to gel a team together, rather than a hollywood player.

No, you've convinced me there. MoN jumping on the bandwagon for no real reason, rather than giving his honest opinion.

Unless you are prepared to shell out a lot of money for something like a Tesla, or can find an amazing lease deal, I would suggest you wait for now. They are not for for people doing long-range high speed work quite yet, although charging speeds and range are improving. The latest 800v cars can charge pretty quick, but finding chargers that can throw 200kw plus down a cable right now is difficult. If I understand you correctly, you are doing over 1000 miles a week, maybe 40k miles a year, so you are not a typical driver but your situation is not unusual. If you are paying for you own fuel, there are huge savings to be made by home charging if you have off road parking, but the tech is not cheap enough yet, at least in the UK.

About 10% are out of action at any one time, as far as the latest reports I have seen, which is absolutely unacceptable, although we should differentiate between rapid chargers and sad old trickle chargers when we talk about faulty ones. I'm pleased to say that the woeful, out of date, Chademo optimised, Ecotricity motorway network has been taken over by Gridserve, who are rapidly installing modern and reliable 150kw chargers to replace the old ones. I saw the new ones at South Mimms the other day. That network was an absolute disgrace, and I can entirely understand the huge frustration they caused. To my mind they were a clear sign that the alleged govt enthusiasm for the tech was greenwashing par excellence. Thankfully things are improving, although the subsidies seem to be dropping every 5 minutes. Do you charge at home yourself? It is far tougher if you can't, I'm more than happy to admit.

I agree with MoN. I can't be bothered with FT much these days, because I'm a supporter not a critic. The stink of entitlement stalks the boards. https://talksport.com/football/1048367/

It would have been a lot better for his Leicester career if he had been fit at the start. I know it sounds improbable, but he might have been tolerable cover in better circumstances, tho I think it is too late for him to find redemption here.

Ain't that the Huth.

It's going to take a lot more than that to change the narrative, but it was a decent enough performance for me.

Those were my candidates really, Madders is another one whose work rate can be intermittent although his form recently suggests his is certainly trying with the ball. For clubs like us, success has effects on expectations of players as well as fans. I think holding on to our best players in the summer was not ideal, because our model relies on some turnover to stop us having to pay peak career contracts.

Too many players half out the door, half the rest either injured or not anywhere near 100%. I'd listen to offers for Youri and even Wilf, perhaps Barnes and Madders too. Soyuncu I would listen to loan offers for, and just get a proper CB in. And then you have BR, who hasn't found a way to stem the aerial assault, and somehow allowed an entirely unsuitable CB into the club. I think this is going to be painful if we can't get a few results quickly.

I know loads more mate. I'll let others judge but you haven't fessed up why you have the wrong car, or backed up your claims on range and 'green-ness'. And how can you say you are happy with your choice given your complaints? Turns out I don't just read some s**t off Top Gear, do come again.

Finally I agree with you on something and I said as much back up the thread. But it costs peanuts to put in a few destination chargers, so it isn't like you can either do these other things or put some in.

I agree a few chargers is not going to make a huge difference, I did say that somewhere. I'm not calling you a CC denier, but you are are making a hash of your credibility with your FUD on EV's. I get you have a problem, but go and look at the surveys of EV users, most don't and to pretend they do because you are butt-hurt is misinformation.

So you (and your friends) bought without doing the research, believed an unscrupulous salesman, jumped a bit too early, or were perhaps pushed onto them by your work inappropriately? I have sympathy if that is the case, but you don't even have ignorance as an excuse for that half an hour claim, without any qualification whatsoever, which is misleading imho. You keep throwing out BS here continually, they are cleaner than fossils no matter how the electricity is generated, although the difference is not huge if the power is pure coal based. I'm sorry you have had a bad experience, but most folks with home charging and a reasonable range for their individual use case are not struggling. Again, the information on user satisfaction does not tally with your view, but it's all out there for those who wish to look. Ultimately it is the satisfaction of users on cost, reliability and convenience that will win out. I have a friend who chose a Mini Electric over the regular one on lease, which was a bit brave because the Mini has poor range for this day and age (especially in the cold, wet and wind), although the designers made a conscious decision to not go with a big battery because it costs more and affects the trademark Mini go-cart handling. After a few scares getting used to charging out and about and such she learned about using the app for pre-heating before unplugging in the morning, and using the seat heaters more than other forms, and is at a point where she is saving so much money on fuel she will take a bit of inconvenience on the odd occaision. So why have you and your friends got cars that don't do what you think they should, are you suffering with coldgating as well as disappointing range? I appreciate that not every EV has the latest and greatest tech, but FF car users know the fuel economy figures quoted by the manufacturers are difficult or impossible to achieve, and the same applies to electrics. I highly recommend Bjorn Nyland's work, many people wait for his excellent reviews before committing to a car, because the manufacturers report differently. Porsche are known to undersell the range on their cars to avoid confusion, and if I was in charge I would force all manufacturers to do the same. One thing I will say is that some will get caught out by the different world that is an electric car, because there are foibles to learn, which we accept on FF cars but barely notice them. For example, getting into a regular car, starting and then flooring it is not sensible, so we don't do it. Getting a car that is marginal for your use case is not a good idea however it is powered, and high speed long-range motorway work is still the preserve of FF cars unless you have Tesla and access to their reliable supercharger network.

Tbf, it's mainly for posh folks here in the UK at the mo. I bought a car a year ago, and it has stop/start and cylinder deactivation, but it is still a fossil car. None of the hybrids had enough electric range to be very attractive at my price bracket, and as I don't have off street parking it would have been a big pain to juice up at the pathetic rates achievable by what I could afford. I'm green but I'm also a realist, and they certainly aren't for everyone just yet. In the blessed EU they are throwing subsidies around like it is the end of days (and maybe they have a point), and they are much more competitive. I believe the big subsidies also apply to lease cars in Germany, which explains some of the enthusiasm, because the youth seem to lease more than old gits like me. I'm not saying everybody should change tomorrow, because in this country the numbers don't add up for me personally, or for most drivers. As concerned by the direction of travel as I am, I don't have that extra 10k up front to throw at it. If I lived in France or Germany I would have probably been able to get something I could live with second hand, because the new stuff being subsidised affects used prices. But I'm ready to go when it all comes in range. I think domestic batteries will largely be made of cheaper battery chemistries in future, it's a thing that can work well to get your energy at the cheapest times of day. We are having a massive energy price spike over here, but sadly we have small homes so throwing in 200kg of batteries is not for everyone, but like with good insulation, the least showy tech can be the most efficient. There certainly is virtue signalling in solar and wind etc, and I understand there is nothing worse than a jet-setter flaunting their green fig leaves as if we should be grateful. I think it is has reached a tipping point though, or you could say a period of disruption, but only in the new car market as yet in this country. I appreciate this is not the case in Oz, but every year the costs of manufacture are going down, batteries are getting bigger (in capacity) but not heavier, and charging speeds have improved significantly, pretty much across the board. In China they are starting phase out subsidies on electric cars because they don't really need it in their domestic market., unfortunately that is also happening here in the UK, where they do. I could start banging on about the reliability of the electric motor, but I've over-answered one to many times on this thread. I'm sorry Teapot annoyed me, but it's bad enough being bs'd about footie. People need to know they work ok for many drivers, and if you can charge at home the future looks rosy. The rest of us will probably be along when the charging hits something like 15 minutes for 2/3 of a tank, which only really the very best, most optimised cars can get close to now, at a price ordinary folk can afford. Road pricing will be a bummer though, can't really see an alternative to that.

very sad to see the level of grief on here, he certainly made an impact in his life. It is at times like this I feel most proud of FT. RIP Liam, plane tracking will never be quite the same again. Well played young man, well played.

I would like to try and steer things a bit back in terms of general greenness. I'm kind of thinking that a group who derives most of their income from airport concessions is not a comfortable fit with counting the carbons, but I would have expected them to be modern on other aspects. At least the newts got some love! It is possible to be good on some stuff, and less good on others. I'm torn on the clappers, because it allows everyone to make a racket, but I do like the kitchen garden aspect.

Australia is, alongside the US, one of the most skeptical about electric cars, and the geography is more difficult for them, no question about that. I would expect the transition to be slower where the conditions are more demanding, so don't worry, the technology is being proven elsewhere, in China and Europe. PS Has anyone in Oz thought of buying a home battery? works well with solar and then you are running on sunshine at no marginal cost, which makes the oil companies (and you) really, really angry, although I have no idea why.

Anything over half an hour? You have just shown how little you know, an eight year old Nissan Leaf is not the reference point in 2022. Build the chargers and they will come. It helps to get folks started to have a few chargers for not huge money, subsidised by the Workplace grant scheme, it shouldn't be a big deal on a £100 million pound site. Of course, some of these staff will have driving habits that might not be much fun in what they can afford, you really need a Tesla to if you are a motorway specialist for some reason. And I would argue that high mileage motorway monsters are a good few years from being served well by anything on the used market. It is the leased market end-of-contract vehicles that need to come on strong before that happens, I guess. I follow Bjorn Nyland, who is probably the man, in terms of real world information on EV's, have you even heard the name before?and I did aspire to car journalism, but most of the journalists I met were knobs, so I never got further than work experience and newspaper journalism training. So you know your CCS from your Chademo and your type 2? Your Zap map from ABRP? Do you understand charging curves and their importance? Do you understand battery temperature management, pre-heating etc? Do you understand the impact of wind, rain, elevation and temperature on range? Do you know about the recent load switching tech being used in the latest charger clusters? Have you ever heard of Lucid? Do you understand the effect of wheel size on range, are bigger or smaller better? This plug socket that takes over 24 hours is probably what is known as a 'granny lead' (although of course you knew that), and you can get just under 3kwh out of it which gives roughly 72kw into the battery, which is a lot. Most electric cars are 50 or 60 kwh, only the flash ones are bigger, and a home charge point is not that pricey with the govt chucking in a third of the cost. But the reality is a 7kwh charger is sensible if you have a flash, long range EV. Good point. It's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel, so I will stop there. One thing I will say is I don't really care about the opinions of those who prove themselves ill informed, but fire away.